Blackwater Strange Poison

Several years ago, Shen Xiu had just graduated from Saint Orchid Academy. After Ye Han rejected her confession, she got blind drunk and accidentally triggered a mechanism in her room, dropping into a cavern hundreds of meters underground, where she met Old Monster.

She was the first human Old Monster had encountered in hundreds of thousands of years, so it didn't let the Black Water Mysterious Turtle kill her. Instead, it sent her back to the surface on the condition that she collect the blood of Legendary Demon Beasts, help break its seal, and free it.

But Shen Xiu had never returned, and there had been no word from her in years.

"Hand it over!" Yu'er said, her face icy as she held out her little hand, pale and soft from soaking in the bath.

What it wanted, of course, was the blood of a Legendary Demon Beast.

Shen Xiu had long since forgotten their agreement. Why would a human let a demon god loose to harm her own kind? She asked in confusion, "Hand... what over?"

"Smack!"

Yu'er suddenly slapped her across the face. Shen Xiu immediately felt as if someone had smeared chili oil on her cheek; it burned fiercely.

"The blood of a Legendary Demon Beast! Have you forgotten the agreement between us?" Yu'er glared, her almond-shaped eyes wide. Beneath her chest wrap, her small breasts rose and fell.

"No!" Shen Xiu shook her head.

"I thought you wouldn't dare forget your agreement with me. Where did you hide it? Take it out!" Yu'er beamed and held out her hand.

Floating in the bathtub, Shen Xiu took two steps back, hunched her shoulders, and answered timidly, "I don't have any Legendary Demon Beast blood..."

The smile on Yu'er's face froze. She'd gotten her hopes up for nothing!

Humans really were an untrustworthy bunch.

Seeing Yu'er about to strike again, Shen Xiu hurriedly explained, "I'm only a Little Silver. I'm weak—just one look from a Legendary Demon Beast could probably kill me. Forget its blood; I couldn't even get its piss! I want to help you, but I really can't!"

Yu'er narrowed her almond-shaped eyes, thinking, Asking her to take on a Legendary Demon Beast really is asking too much.

"Never mind!" Yu'er waved a hand in resignation. She'd just have to do it herself.

Although the cultivation of the puppet she controlled hadn't even reached one-star Bronze, after merging with the Poison Godhead, her cultivation speed would undergo a qualitative leap. She was confident she could raise her cultivation to one-star Legendary within five years.

Besides, even without Legendary cultivation, with her mastery of poison, she could easily kill Legendary powerhouses.

As long as she gathered the blood of Legendary Demon Beasts of wood, fire, water, metal, and earth, she could free her true body.

But before she began cultivating in earnest, there was one thing she still had to do.

She would tear that little bastard who'd burned her limb from limb, then take back the Water Godhead!

"Tell me, did you just see someone identical to her climb out of the cave?" Xiangliu pointed at Yu'er's rosy little face as it questioned Shen Xiu.

"No!" Shen Xiu shook her head to show she hadn't seen anyone. "I fell asleep in the bathtub. When I woke up, I saw you sneaking out of the hole in the bed. I didn't see anyone else."

Should she tell Old Monster that she'd not only seen that person, but he'd also made her feel pleasure beyond anything she'd ever known?

Did she look like someone with no pride?

"You haven't seen him?" Yu'er furrowed her willow brows. "I don't care whether you've seen him or not. You have to help me find him. You have one day. I'll come back tomorrow morning. If you can give me some clues, I'll give you the antidote to ease the Blackwater Strange Poison!"

With her hands behind her back, Yu'er headed for the door.

"I forgot to tell you! If you're afflicted with my Blackwater Strange Poison and don't take the medicine to ease it—or have sex with a man who truly loves you—within twelve hours, you'll explode and die. There's no cure for this poison, and it flares up every twelve hours." Yu'er let out a cackling laugh.

"Struggling is futile. Just do as I say." After the warning, Yu'er walked out of the room with her hands behind her back, swaggering.

Shen Xiu had no idea where she was going.

"Bastard! Son of a bitch!" Once the footsteps faded, Shen Xiu cursed at the top of her lungs and beat the bathwater in a fit of hysteria. Rose petals flew everywhere, and dirty water spread all over the wooden floor.

She'd had the worst luck today! Not only had she lost her virginity and her money, she'd also been threatened with a painting and poison—and by two servants she despised most.

"You'll pay for this! I'll get my revenge!! I, Shen Xiu, swear it by the Heavenly Dao!!!"

After venting for a while, Shen Xiu climbed out of the tub and changed into a clean, neat dress from the wardrobe.

As upset as she was, life had to go on.

Today was her first day teaching at Saint Orchid Academy. She couldn't be late and leave a bad impression on the instructors and students.

If she couldn't help her second nephew win over the City Lord's daughter, her half-brother—the Family Head—would kill her without those two scumbags lifting a finger.

Dawn brightened, and the outlines of the city emerged hazily in the morning light.

At the main gate of Saint Orchid Academy.

A young man, three times as burly as a bear, was stopped by the gatekeeper on duty.

He wore a red tank top that showed off arms as sturdy as iron pillars. Below it, he had on blue shorts and a pair of flip-flops. A pale yellow straw hat hung on his back.

No matter how you looked at him, he didn't seem like a student at the academy. He looked more like a thug there to cause trouble.

"What are you here for?" the old gatekeeper asked in an unfriendly tone, gripping a white-waxed spear.

"I'm here to study! What about it?" The young man scratched his short black hair.

"Study? Show me your identity badge!" The old gatekeeper held out a rough, dark hand covered in calluses.

An identity badge was like a student ID. Thousands of students came and went every day, so checking them one by one was too much trouble. The gatekeeper usually didn't check, and students usually didn't carry their badges with them.

"I don't have one!" The young man spread his hands. "I'm not a student at Saint Orchid Academy yet. I'm here to enroll. I've already scraped together the tuition. Look!"

The young man pulled a wad of crumpled hundred-yuan bills from his pocket and showed them to the gatekeeper.

The gatekeeper squinted his bleary old eyes. The young man sounded so earnest that perhaps he really was telling the truth.

However...

"You're too late. Enrollment closed yesterday. Come back next year!"

The young man was stunned.

"I'm only one day late, not a month! I can make up the classes I missed. Please let me in, old timer!"

He still wanted to plead his case.

"No! Rules are rules! Stop pestering me and get out of here!" The old gatekeeper was extremely impatient.

The academy's leaders made the rules. He was just a lowly gatekeeper and couldn't change them. He would retire in a few months. For now, all he had to do was his job and stand his last post. He didn't want to cause trouble.

"I want to see Vice Dean Ye Sheng! If he says I can't study here, I'll leave right away and won't bother you again!" The young man grabbed the gatekeeper's hand and quietly slipped him a hundred-yuan bill. "Please, sir, do me a favor!"

Clutching the bill, the gatekeeper was tempted.

"Get out of the way! A good dog doesn't block the road!"

Suddenly, an angry shout rang out from behind the young man.